The call came two days later, shattering the fragile tension that had been hanging over everything like a guillotine blade.
Full recovery
The doctors couldn't explain it. They kept fumbling through medical jargon with wide-eyed disbelief — words like "unprecedented,""remarkable response," and the classic "we've never seen anything quite like this" tumbling out of their mouths.
But the test results didn't lie.
Brutal months of slow, merciless deterioration had been violently slammed into reverse since Phei had visited and in just the last forty-eight hours. Muscle function restored. Respiratory capacity normalized.
Every single marker that had been trending downward for nearly a year was now climbing with aggressive enthusiasm, as if the body had suddenly remembered its job and decided to overachieve out of sheer spite.
They called it a miracle.
Diana knew better.
